Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thatch-roofed villages painted sky blue and sienna, past gargantuan collective farms and gleaming new factories. Geese hissed, dogs barked, and Ceausescu listened to gripes. Sometimes speaking from a stack of concrete blocks, sometimes from the back of a wagon, he pressed home again and again a message more familiar to Western audiences than to Communists: "We are moving now; we want your help in building a better Rumania...
Eliot House has its own legend and lore. Its name evokes images of Master John Finley wandering from table to table in the dining room mentioning those all-too-familiar figures of antiquity. Its name produces visions of nattily-dressed preppies scampering from a Master's tea to the Club, and of House jocks and future Rhodes scholars energetically supporting a virtual madhouse of intramural activities...
Nonetheless, its basic strategy is suggested by a Lou Harris poll showing that only 49% of the voters currently approve Lyndon Johnson's handling of the war, v. 66% in December. This does not by any means suggest that the argument will resemble the familiar dove-hawk controversy. Many Republican campaigners will undoubtedly urge intensified bombing of North Viet Nam, particularly "source" targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex, which have been spared on the President's orders. The Administration may also be criticized for not calling up the reserves-or, if they have been mobilized by November...
...exulted a Democratic legislator. "It's just like old times!" There in the capitol at Lansing, sporting his familiar green, polka-dot bow tie and pumping hands all around, stood G. Mennen Williams, looking for all the world as if Michigan were Mennenland again. Greyer and not quite so well packaged as when he left the governor ship in 1960 after six straight terms, gangling Soapy Williams had come back to campaign for the U.S. Senate...
...what the great observatories have seen, and the clues collected from faint spectrograms may lead science into a new era of understanding. If astronomers can find an explanation for the birth of quasars, they may yet be able to find the secrets of Creation itself; and if physicists become familiar with the mechanics of elemental reac tions far out at the boundaries of perception, they may yet learn the ultimate secrets of matter and energy on earth. For science is fast advancing into areas where the old theories may no longer apply, where the old rules may no longer work...